Say I have two processes that append lines to copies of the same original (parent) file (copy_A and copy_B). If I diff these copies, can diff ever conclude that we have a conflict? (i.e. can it ever ...

I currently try to monitor two directories and subdirectories for changes in files. The directories contain the same set of files, some of them are changed. So I thought I might use the diff command ...

Suppose I have same version of linux kernel but I changed some driver lines. Is there any way to compare these kernels and list the results. The result would be helpful to go back if I changed a lot ...

I have two text files, and I want to compare their corresponding values according to their rows and columns. By comparing, I mean to check if the values are equal and echo if the values are the same ...

I have two files that essentially contain a memory dumps in a hex format. At the moment I use diff to see if the files are different and where the differences are. However, this can be misleading when ...

I am looking to perform a diff between 2 directories, both of which contain may files and subdirectories.
I am hoping to perform a one-way diff between a source and target directory that will return ...

I am having a large number of output files produced by repeated runs of a test suite and would like to see, approximately, how different they are. Ideally they should all be identical (indicating a ...

I've two RFS (RFS = Root File System) directories, which I would like to compare to each other with diff. Both directories represent an RFS of some other system, and they may contain links. If those ...

I have a number of files in a directory, and I want to check that they are all unique. For simplicity, let's say I have three files: foo.txt, bar.txt and baz.txt. If I run this loop, I will check them ...

I have two directories named comp1 and comp2 and both have files named file1 and file2.
I need a bash script which read file1 from both the directories and take diff of each file and redirect to some ...

I have two log files with thousands of lines. After pre-processing, only some lines differ. These remaining lines are either real differences, or shuffled groups of lines.
Unified diffs allow me to ...

There is bdiff(1) command in Solaris, which allow you to diff(1) files with size bigger than your RAM size (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/806-7612/files-23/index.html).
Is there something like ...